Darvi found Myles when he was leaving with his teammates using a man-pulling cart. He didn’t confront Myles but just stealthily followed him from a distance.“What happened to his teammates? They are all in terrible condition. Should I call a doctor and tell him to come and treat them?” After some thinking, Darvi shook his head. “Nah, my mission isn’t to care about his team. Let’s not get ahead of myself and focus on the mission at hand. But I must say his team looks weak. If I was in his place, I’d just kick them out of the team, or get rid of them for good as they’d be nothing but hindrance. So, I’m not sure why he keeps such weak souls around him.”Myles stopped the cart at a famous doctor’s house in the ward. She was a woke-ostrich who asked how Justin and others got their injuries. Myles told her they suffered injuries in a dungeon. The doctor asked for proof. Myles took out a random star crystal from his spatial ring. The doctor needed no more proof. She used her water ability t
In the middle of the night, at the Tail Cave.Porcius managed to slip out without anyone noticing, but then he got caught by Ruff who just happened to be passing by.Ruff, the woke-giraffe executioner, took a second to remember Porcius. “Y-You’re Porcius, aren’t you?”“I don’t know who you’re talking about,” Porcius acted innocent. (Dammit1 Why’s this giraffe roaming in the middle of the night? Was he making rounds? I came out at the wrong time!)“You were locked up in the dungeon as the Plague Pig,” Ruff drew his long sword out, “so how are you able to come out? You look like you were healed of all the diseases, too. Care to explain what exactly happened?”“You bastards used me as a guinea pig for your biological experiments!” Porcius howled. “I’m never going to forget what you all have done to me!” he swiftly sucked in a large amount of air and blew a giant air bubble through his mouth.“You think I can’t break a bubble?” Ruff thrust his sword and pierced the bubble, but then it exp
Before dawn.At Ria’s house, Myles and others had a long, fun chat with Hipster and Foxie, one of the two citizens that helped them after they entered the wolf city.“You should keep your Mage Score higher than six, or it wouldn’t do any good for you,” Hipster advised. “I’ve never let my score fall lower than seven in the past five years. I can get it higher than eight, either because of the business I’m in. Brawls are common in these inns and bars, so that’s that. But it’s different for adventurers like you guys. You can reach scores above nine if you achieve good results in the dungeons.”“I’ve managed to keep my score above six,” Foxie also voiced her mind. “That’s enough for the small-time job I do.”Ria smiled and put the house keys and documents in Foxie’s hands, startling her.“What are you doing?” Foxie was confused. “Why did you give me these?”“We probably won’t come back to this house, so it’s yours from now on,” Ria calmly stated.“R-Really?” Foxie’s lips curved into a big
Just as Myles had predicted, the authorities investigated everybody Myles and his group had come into contact with.There were no surveillance cameras around in these wards that were far from the center of the city, so Hipster and Foxie could say whatever they wanted and get away with it so long as they weren’t proven to be lying.Hipster and Foxie had enough people backing them to convince the authorities that they didn’t support Myles and his group for nefarious reasons.Penny was also approached, but she didn’t even answer them. She just showed them her middle finger. Given her messy history, they didn’t poke her too much.Rockell and his family was also interrogated, and the officers tried to intimidate and trick Rockell into confessing something he didn’t do, but because he knew the law: innocent until proven guilty, he was able to get out of any charges that were put on hi as he wasn’t found guilty.After Ruff’s death, Bryant from the Red Blade squad took over the executioner’s
The fight between Asger and Darvi shook the fiftieth floor and scared all the beings on that floor.They had to put their battle on hold for the time being because both of them had better things to do. Asger wanted to return to his lord as Myles had gone to the lower floors. Darvi also wanted to keep following Myles and his group.“The next time we meet, your head will fly,” Asger said and entered through a dark portal.“The ability to cover large distances instantly…” Darvi envied Asger’s ability. “Will I be able to obtain it if I kill him and obtain his seven-star crystal?” he wondered. “At any rate, if everything goes according to plan, I’ll be facing him soon enough.”He was about to head into the 51st floor, but he stopped at the entrance and looked back. A snake came slithering up to him and spit out a round ball. He held the ball at both ends of the diameter and twisted in opposite directions, which opened the ball and revealed a small paper scroll inside. He read the contents
The 51st floor had a volcanic setting with hot magma pools everywhere. It wasn’t quite suitable for fighting because of the uneven grounds. Moreover, any sort of disturbance to the ground would make lava pour out of the pools. Many people and monsters had died this way when they recklessly fought on this floor.And Myles wanted his teammates to spar with the manglers in such a setting. The challenge was not an easy one. The risk was too high.Nevertheless, Justin and others introduced themselves first.Then the Manglers impolitely introduced themselves one by one.“I’m Soro Gills,” the young blonde guy said with a smile, “I’m the youngest in the group, and I specialize in cutting the flesh and veins and draining the blood of the opponents.”“H-He’s a psychopath,” Ria muttered under her breath. “I can just feel it in his eyes. He likes cutting people.”Myles heard Ria’s words even though others didn’t, and he also believed the same. Even though Soro was smiling, that smile didn’t reach
Soro’s ‘Bleeding Lotus Blitz’ was by no means a simple attack. It could destroy an entire house into nothing but rubble. And Soro didn’t really hold himself back when he launched his attack. Even if he were to kill Ria, he had nothing to lose as Myles had given the permission for him to fight with the intent to kill.Hundreds of dark petals flew at Ria’s body. Her instincts screamed in her head, and her body reacted at lightning speed, and she covered herself with her wings.The petals struck her wings and bounced off in different directions. Some struck the ground, and some fell in the lava pool that was more than 100 ft away.Though the petals couldn’t cut through Ria’s feathers, the sheer power behind them sent Ria flying back. She was heading straight for the volcanic pool. She wanted to fly, but her wings were still trembling after taking the attack, and so she couldn’t employ her wings.“She’s going to fall!” Biskie worriedly said.“Why isn’t she flying?” Casey yelled in confusi
In that fraction of a second, as Soro came thrusting his dark-lotus leaking sword at her, a lot of regret filled Ria’s heart.Just a second ago, she thought she was in a safe position. She thought the lava wouldn’t affect her because she had the divine shield, but she should have known better. Even when someone like Soro who was much stronger than her had moved away from the lava pool, she thought she could stand in the lava. And she did. However, a simple burst of poisonous lava vapors disoriented her and made her knees go weak.All she could do was watch as Soro came at her heart. She couldn’t even move her wings this time. It was definitely over. She was going to die, she thought.But then a faint voice whispered in her mind: Don’t give up.Ria didn’t know how, but her arms moved fast and cross-blocked just in time. Soro’s sword struck her arms. Two powerful forces clashed. Hundreds of dark petals on one side, and an ethereal wall of energy on the other side.Both of them got repel